{"id":9828,"date":"2012-04-26T14:46:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T18:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=9828"},"modified":"2012-06-10T10:37:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T14:37:25","slug":"frames-of-the-visible-by-sanaz-mazinani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=9828","title":{"rendered":"Frames of the Visible by Sanaz Mazinani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/2-Together-We-Are-Detail1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-9830\" title=\"Iraq Female Suicide Bombers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/2-Together-We-Are-Detail1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a>Together We Are (detail), 2011Copyright:\u00a9 Sanaz Mazinani \/ Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery<\/p>\n<p><strong>May 5 &#8211; June 9, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Saturday, May 5, 2 &#8211; 5 p.m.<br \/>\nArtist Talk: Saturday, May 5, 1 &#8211; 2 p.m. (RSVP as seating is limited)<br \/>\n<strong>STEPHEN BULGER GALLERY<\/strong><br \/>\n1026 Queen St. W.<br \/>\nToronto, ON,\u00a0M6J 1H6<br \/>\nT: 416.504.0575<br \/>\nE: <a href=\"mailto:info@bulgergallery.com\">info@bulgergallery.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bulgergallery.com\">www.bulgergallery.com<\/a><br \/>\nHours: Tues &#8211; Sat 11 &#8211; 6 p.m. or by appointment<\/p>\n<p>The gallery is pleased to present our first solo exhibition by Canadian-Iranian photographer Sanaz Mazinani. In <strong>\u201cFrames of the Visible,\u201d<\/strong> Mazinani examines the disassociation that occurs between an event and its photographic record. Using destabilizing images of war mined from online news media outlets, Mazinani constructs photographic collages that collapse the intimations of the original image, thus creating a new representation of conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Mazinani explores the relationship between perception and representation by drawing from concepts such as censorship, scale, and the body as a site of action or violence. For instance, juxtaposing appropriated images of a female suicide bomber and of media darling Paris Hilton, creates a new meaning that can affect our understanding of an image and how it is used to illustrate and construct history. The geometric patterns created by sequentially coupling, repeating, mirroring, and multiplying her source material references Islamic ornamentation, pairing traditional Eastern and contemporary Western image production techniques. These works examine the radical ways in which individuals perceive the same object with differing complexity. Mazinani seeks to recognize how political realities are represented in photography. She visions the perspectival frames of warfare, while acknowledging the complicated nature of our modern existence in a globalized world.<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition also coincides with the launch of Mazinani\u2019s catalogue, Unfolding Images, published by Bulger Gallery Press in April 2012 and co-authored by Jeremiah Barber, David Fresko and Mohammadreza Mirzaei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May 5 &#8211; June 9, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Saturday, May 5, 2 &#8211; 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STEPHEN BULGER GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>examines the disassociation that occurs between an event and its photographic record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=9828\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9828"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11983,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9828\/revisions\/11983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}